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Half-Life 2 Hints

Section 2: Abandoned Houses and NLO (d2_coast_03)

  • 1 of 12: When you exit from the tunnel, refrain from driving through the warning markers on the road ahead -- you'd just crash painfully and overturn the jeep again.
  • 2 of 12: Drive quickly across the sand and head for the big black thumper near the house you see on a grassy hill up ahead.
  • 3 of 12: The thumper's already turned on, so you can park next to it and be safe from antlions. (Though watch out for any sneaking up the back way if you explore around the house, which is optional.)
  • 4 of 12: Drive left past a beached ship and then on to another thumper-guarded house, this one complete with Combine soldiers.
  • 5 of 12: Since the wooden bridge near this house is out, drive back down onto the sandy beach and on to where some Combine soldiers are fighting antlions near a small boathouse.
  • 6 of 12: Drive on down the beach past the boathouse until you see a wide thumper-guarded slope on the left that leads up to the New Little Odessa (NLO) resistance base.
  • 7 of 12: Park the jeep and follow one of the resistance guys into a basement where Colonel Cubbage is giving a lecture on the use of RPGs against Combine gunships.
  • 8 of 12: And wouldn't you know it? Mere seconds after Cubbage hands you the RPG, a Combine gunship appears on the horizon and attacks the base.
  • 9 of 12: After you finally destroy the annoying thing, run around and resupply on health and rockets.
  • 10 of 12: Also, if your armor is less than 25, return to the Colonel's basement area and stand next to the vortigaunt until he charges you up to 59. (TIP: If your armor is less than 59 when the gunship battle starts, make sure you get shot up enough to drop it below 25.)
  • 11 of 12: When you're ready to leave NLO, get in the jeep and drive up to the gate blocking the next section of highway to get the resistance guys to open it for you.
  • 12 of 12: Drive on down to the next massive break in this messed-up "highway," then head down the slope on the right to get to Section 3: Northern Petrol.